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Difference between camera roll, photo stream, and photo library
location: apple.com - date: April 1, 2012
As stated in the subject line, I don't understand the differences between these (3) items that appear on my iPhone.post reply
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Theresa10/02/14,16:20I need to free up some space? What is the difference between camera roll and my photo stream? Which should I trash?

Difference between camera roll and photostream.
location: macrumors.com - date: January 7, 2012
What is the difference between camera roll and photo stream.post reply
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Albums? - Camera Roll, Photo Stream, Photo Library....
location: macrumors.com - date: April 29, 2012
Ok, so I have 5 different categories on my iPhone for pictures. I have a Camera Roll, Photo Stream, Photo Library, Contacts, and Last 12 Months. So Camera Roll is what I have taken with this phone. Photo Stream is what has gone into iCloud? Photo Library is whatever I have taken with the phone and or added to it from another source (like a picture from a text msg or email that I save)? But I don't see recent pictures in my Photo Library Or is Photo Library a combination of something else? I know Contacts is my pictures for people in my Contacts list. And then Last 12 months is another categorized set of pictures taken within the last 12 months?
I guess I don't understand why there are so many categories. I assume if the same pictures are in more then 1 group, it still counts as one? Or would it count as lets say 3 pictures if the same pic is in 3 capost reply
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Moving photos/downloaded pics from camera roll to another photo folder on Iphone
location: imore.com - date: February 18, 2011
Is this possible. I created a new photo folder that appears on my Iphone called "Other Pictures". Now say I download a wallpaper or some other pic from the internet or save a pic from an email, it automatically goes to my camera roll folder. How can I move them to my "Other Pictures' folder on my Iphone. Can this be done on the Iphone itself somehow?
Or can this only be done via a mac, if so how do I locate the camera roll pics on my mac.post reply
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Camera Roll sending mystery photo to Twitter
location: imore.com - date: March 14, 2012
Hi all - Just got my 4S about a month ago, but something really weird happened today.
I took a picture of something at school (a bunch of empty chairs, to be exact), went into the camera roll, hit share and "tweet." The tweet box popped up with the correct photo, I added my message and hit send. Problem is, when I went onto my twitter timeline to see if it had gone through, the picture attached was not what I had originally sent. In fact, it's not even a photo that is on my phone, or has ever been on my phone. It was a weird screenshot of a youtube video from a computer (see attachment). I've never watched that video, or have anything like that on my phone or computer, so I don't understand where it came from and what happened to my photo.
Has this happened to anyone else?
4S running 5.0.1, not jailbroken, not synced to iCloud.
Gregpost reply
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Deleted photo stream photo's no longer on computer
location: imore.com - date: June 1, 2013
I deleted a lot of photo's from my photo stream after they were on my computer. Now the one's I deleted on my phone are also deleted from my computer. Is there any way of getting them back?post reply
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Camera Roll, Photo Library, and iPhoto special folder-How to make into ONE?
location: apple.com - date: January 30, 2013
-I understand "Camera Roll" category on the iPhone PHOTOS area contains the pics I've taken on my iphone. I know I can move these to iPhoto when I connect iPhone to my computer, then delete off of iPhone.-Inside iPhoto on my desktop computer I made a folder called: "For iPhone" in which I chose some pics I wanted to be seen on my iPhone; so then inside iTunes under my device's name, under "Sync photos from iPhoto" I have chosen "Selected albums" and only chose the one "For iPhone" (x40 pics) that I made.-Now when I go to my iPhone after a sync there is: 1)Camera Roll (x89-as stated I can delete these ok) 2)Photo Library (x40) 3)For iPhone (x40) post reply
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camera roll vs photo stream
location: apple.com - date: January 24, 2013
trying to pull all my photos from my iphone 5 to my pc as back up. through windows i was able to take everything from camera roll and then delete them on my iphone there are still photos in the photo stream. how do i get to them? what is the difference between Camera roll and photo stream?post reply
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iCloud Camera Roll backup, Photo stream and iTunes wifi sync??
location: macrumors.com - date: February 19, 2012
Can someone clear a few things up for me please. It is confusing me at the moment.
My iCloud 5gig storage is full with the vast majority (approx 4.7gig) being the camera roll.
Here is where I am confused...I have Photo stream ON and also have the Camera Roll backing up to iCloud. With Photo Stream, all of my photos get sent to iPhoto on my mac under the tab "Photo Stream". But they also get saved into my photos by Month (e.g. Feb 2011 Photo Stream, March 2011, etc). So essentially they are "backed up" even though the actual "photo stream" tab photos get replaced.
So I have a few questions...Do I even need to have my Camera Roll backed up to iCloud? And where is the actual "back up" of Camera Roll on iCloud? (other then Photo Stream)
And if I turn off "Camera Roll" in iCloud backups (Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup>Manage Storage>My iPhone Backup>Camera Rolpost reply
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move photo's from camera roll to photo stream
location: apple.com - date: April 17, 2012
I am confused. I have a number of photo's in Camera Roll. They apparantly do not back up to iCloud as part of Photo Stream. Is there a way to move them from Camera Roll to Photo Stream so they will be available to my other devices, or do I have to manually copy them to my desktop to make them available? If the latter, what is the best process for this?post reply
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only camera roll and photo library are on myh phone
location: apple.com - date: May 12, 2013
I don't understand why Photo stream is not in my iCloud. On my iPhone 3GS are Camera Roll and Photo Library along with various albums (I don't understand how to make them, either. Where do I get basic, easy to understand information about photos?post reply
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Photo Stream and Camera Roll - Let me see if I have this straight. . . .?
location: apple.com - date: June 16, 2012
I have an iPhone with iCloud set-up and enabled.I can take a photo with my phone - it automatically goes to Camera Roll and Photostream on my phone.I have iCloud set on my phone to back-up both Camera Roll and Photostream.Camera roll takes up too much storage space on iCloud.If I turn off Camera Roll to be backed up to iCloud, the Photostream pix will still go to iCloud.Since Photostream keeps 1000 photos for 30 days, as long as I have my Windows PC set-up to import Photostream pix those Photostream pix will stay on my PC until I delete them (not subject to the 1000 photos / 30 day limit once on the PC).The only reason to transfer photos on my phone from Photostream to Camera Roll would be if I wanted to keep on Phone on a permanent basis.Photostream takes up none of the free 5gb storage space on iCloud. Why would you back up Camepost reply
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Camera Roll/Photo Stream
location: imore.com - date: October 13, 2011
Okay I have a question that I don't think any one has asked specifically but I have been looking at my iCloud usage and it is already at 1.3GB and it is mainly backups from apps but I notice that a chunk is coming from my camera roll. I though pictures did not count against your storage space. Is there a setting that I am missing to make it move them? Or does the old pictures stay there until you delete them and any new ones go to photo stream and don't take any data?
Thanks!post reply
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Running out of internal storage space! Want to make room by deleting photos WITHOUT LOSING MY PHOTOS! Can I delete the Camera Roll yet still keep my photos in Photo Stream?? Will doing this free up ios storage? Does Photo Stream auto delete ever?
location: apple.com - date: March 29, 2013
Hello, I am out of internal storage on my Iphone 4 ALREADY (Just purchased 3 months ago!). I need to clear up some space so I can do updates and take new photos. I was thinking about backing up my Photo Stream to the icloud and then deleting my Camera Roll. 1.) Is this a terrible idea??? I do NOT want to lose those photos! But I NEED more space on my phone! 2.) Will deleting Camera Roll free up space (a sufficient amount? My Camera Roll is at 4.5 GB)? 3.) Will deleting Camera Roll delete my photos from Photo Stream also? It doesn't seem to. 4.) Does Photo Stream ever automatically delete photos???post reply
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Photo Stream & Camera Roll using double memory?
location: apple.com - date: April 13, 2012
I have a 16gb new iPad. I've noticed that since taking some home movies using the video camera (total of about 25 minutes) my available internal storage has dropped quite a bit along with my availble iCloud storage. I also noticed that all photos and videos are duplicated between the Photo Steam and Camera Roll. I'm not sure I've really figured out the difference between these two and whether I need them both. If I understand correctly, Photo Stream is there to work with iCloud to backup and also push stuff to other devices (but that feature has a 30day/1,000 photo limit)? On the other hand, the Camera Roll is permanent (although it also backs up to iCloud, depending on your settings)? I also understand that Photo Stream data doesn't eat into the free 5gb on iCloud, but Camera Roll does. So, my questions are: 1. post reply
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I'm a little confused about the camera roll and photo stream in the new iOS 7 and Mavericks.
location: apple.com - date: November 18, 2013
When you delete pics from either the camera roll or photo stream on an iPhone, does it delete them from your Mac and iPad as well? I HOPE the answer is NO. When you take a pic, if I understand correctly, it goes on your camera roll and instantly to your stream and into photos on your Mac and iPad via the Cloud. Is that correct? I would hope that, once the photos go onto your Mac and iPad and you put them into albums that you could delete them from the camera roll and photo stream on your phone. Then, when you sync your Mac and phone, you can transfer the albums the way you want to the phone. Am I missing anything here?post reply
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can't delete blank photo from camera roll
location: modmyi.com - date: September 30, 2007
in my camera there's a blank photo that i can't delete. when i click on camera roll and display thumbnails of all my pictures, there's one that's all white. when i click on it, it's completely black. when i delete it, it disappears from my camera roll. however, if i hit the home button and then navigate back to my camera roll, it reappears. if i download all the images to my computer, it's not on my computer, but it's still on my iphone. what the heck is going on? anyone experienced anything like this or have a solution or suggestions?post reply
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How do you make photo albums on the camera roll?
location: imore.com - date: February 9, 2011
Trying to figure this out all morning so I can separate my photos.
Thank you.post reply
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